[–] 1 point 21 hours ago

this is why Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities is great, it starts with "what happened to that one obscure british children's TV character?" and at some point you're suddenly listening to the story of how the show's creator won the lottery and founded the world's best orphanage which is also a pizzeria.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    bear in mind that china basically did the industrial revolution in like, a single generation..

    if you go from people being subsistence farmers, to living in dogshit housing in dirty cities, to something that the rest of the world considers mind-bogglingly futuristic; all in such short time that your parents have photos of their childhood farm.. yeah capitalism probably seems pretty decent then.

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